The story is about two sisters, Ella and Maddy, identical twins who may look alike, but couldn't be more different in personality. Ella lives in Maddy's shadow, she's the quieter one, the smarter one, the one with a few close friends. Maddy is the popular one with the boyfriend, a group of friends that she can always rely on for a good party and is co-captain of the field hockey team.
One night, after a terrible argument, Maddy and Ella get in a car accident that leaves Maddy dead and Ella confused as to her identity. When everyone assumes that Ella is Maddy, Ella figures that it is because everyone wants Maddy alive, and not her. Ella feels she owes it to her sister to live the life she was meant to live, and Ella decides to give up her dreams and her life. But it isn't easy being someone else, even if that someone is the person you should know the best in the world.
Ella is such a wonderful character, you really get the sense of the struggle she is facing after not only the death of her sister, but learning the truth behind the person her sister had become.
I can't wait to give this book to a few of the kids at school in September.
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